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Many of the technological and managerial challenges of operating in the international environment are being addressed through global IT applications at the functional level of the organization. The impacts of modern technology at the functional levels of multinational firms, specifically in marketing...

Global changes and competition have forced organizations around the world to become more cost effective and efficient. The reengineering efforts of the early 1990s have pressured many organizations to reengineer their MIS structure. Reengineering MIS: Aligning Information Technology and Business...

Many applications that use a database management system are required to hold temporal data, although few commercially available DBMSs provide temporal facilities. Furthermore, requirements specification techniques, such as structured methods and Object-Oriented Analysis, typically do not support a...

This paper discusses the importance of matching the physical file structure of a database with the different types of user transaction requests that the database management software must process. Different physical file structures and user transaction types are explained and interaction between them is...

Human societies have always strived to create databases because data provides access to knowledge. The advent of digital computers clearly represents a big leap forward in creating a higher level of repository for the knowledge of our contemporary civilization. Over the past four decades much energy...

SORAC (Semantic Objects, Relationships, and Constraints) is a unified approach and environment for the design and automated implementation of active database schema that utilizes object-oriented and semantic techniques. It has been applied to architectural design, real-time, and program stock trading...

Database design is a complex task for end users and novice designers. User views are an excellent input source for database design. This research investigates the effect of certain characteristics of user views on designer performance in the logical database design task. The study examines the extent...

If database texts are so good, why do our graduates emerge so poorly prepared for positions in industry? Perhaps the texts are preparing our students to solve the wrong problems. But how could this be? It could happen for a variety of reasons. First, the database field has grown over the years...

The role of the Data and Information Professional has undergone a series of changes over the years as have many other professions. Those of us presently working as Data Professionals need to remember the changing nature in recent years and to prepare for future directions our positions may take. Using...

A large part of the information systems (IS) literature is based on experiences of the private sector in developed countries and is therefore of limited relevance to design and implementation of public information systems (PIS) in a developing country context at least for two reasons. The first is the...

Facilitation is a key element in managing meetings particularly for groups using group support systems (GSS) (Ackermann, 1993). Research comparing adoption of group support systems, however, found differences in understandings and preferences based on cultural background (Ho, Raman, & Watson 1989;...

Telecommuting is a possible solution to several problems faced by employees in large congested cities around the world. These problems include time wasted in commuting, environmental pollution caused by gas guzzling automobiles, rising costs of day care for children, and deterioration in the quality of...

Ever since Eastman Kodak announced that it was outsourcing its information systems (IS) function in 1988 to IBM, DEC and Businessland, large companies have found it acceptable to transfer their IS assets, leases and staff to third party vendors. In the recent past, there is a trend towards selective...

Data was gathered from managers who are responsible for part or all of the information resources of selected large organizations in Korea, Mexico, and the US. The purpose of the research was to learn about the managers’ perceptions of their roles and the factors influencing their own performance and...

This paper deals with the role of Information Systems (IS) in organizations of an emerging economy, China. It attempts to foster a deeper understanding of IS in Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as the country begins to open its economy and as foreign participation increases. The study analyzes...

A field study of 33 Canadian and Belgian travel agencies has allowed us to identify various factors determining the use and advantages obtained of global distribution systems (GDS) in the tourism industry. These systems include Galileo (13 agencies), Sabre (12), Worldspan (6) and Amadeus (2)....

Nils Höeg has two engineering degrees from Loughborough University,UK, and a M.Sc. degree in Industrial Management from MIT ( Sloan Fellow 1967-68). He worked at Boeing Aircraft (1962-64) and headed Norwegian university and industrial computing centres (1965 to 1984). He was the Senior Vice President...